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GDPR: What's your justification?
[Updated Sep.18 to repair links broken by the demise of the Article 29 WP website][Updated Oct.17 to include an example where multiple justifications are appropriate]One of the key steps in preparing for the General Data Protection Regulation is to know why you are processing each set of personal data, and which of the six legal justifications applies: consent, contract, legal ...
Janet East Midlands Service Report May 2...
Janet East Midlands Service Report May 2019...
Rebuilding trust in the Internet's build...
Merike Kaeo's keynote "Waking Up the Guards" at the FIRST 2019 conference (r...
Things that Go Bump in the Night
Apparently Miranda Mowbray had been wanting to do a talk on "Things that Go Bump in t...
Incident Response for Connected Hardware
An interesting talk from Rockwell at this year's FIRST conference looked at how to organise incident response in environments containing network-connected hardware devices. Though Rockwell's focus is on industrial machinery, the same ideas should apply to smart buildings and other places where a security incident can cause physical, not just digital, harm. This is not t...
IP Addresses, Privacy and the GDPR
It's well-known that the General Data Protection Regulation says that IP addresses should be treated as personal data because they can be used to single out individuals for different treatment, even if not to actually identify them. In fact – as most organisations and network providers implement proxies, Network Address Translation (NAT) and other technologies to sque...
Wellbeing analytics: legal explorations
While colleagues are looking at whether data can be used to pick up early signs of mental ...
GDPR: Backups, Archives and the Right to...
I was recently asked how the GDPR's Right to Erasure would affect backups and archives...
Janet Cumbria Regional Delivery Service ...
Please find attached the Cumbria area service report for the month of April 2019...
Janet Wales service report April 2019
Service report for organisations in Wales connected to the Janet network via the PSBA...
Janet North West Regional Delivery Servi...
Please find attached the North West region service report for the month of April 2019...
Travelling with encrypted devices
Most portable devices – laptops, smartphones and memory sticks – should be encrypted so that the information they contain is protected if the device is lost or stolen. Many countries (including the UK) give their immigratio...
Janet Yorkshire Humberside service repor...
Service report for organisations in Yorkshire Humberside connected to the Janet network...
Janet Kent service report April 2019
Service report for organisations in Kent connected to the Janet network via KPSN...
GDPR: Recording Phone Calls
Most of us are familiar with the recorded messages at the start of phone calls that warn &...
GDPR: Twelve Steps, Sorted
Although the Information Commissioner's "Twelve Steps to Prepare" is an exce...
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Monica Whitty's keynote at the FIRST Conference (recording available on YouTube) used...
Merike Kaeo's keynote "Waking Up the Guards" at the FIRST 2019 conference...
Apparently Miranda Mowbray had been wanting to do a talk on "Things that Go Bump in the Night...
Monica Whitty's keynote at the FIRST Conference (recording available on YouTube) used...
Merike Kaeo's keynote "Waking Up the Guards" at the FIRST 2019 conference...
Apparently Miranda Mowbray had been wanting to do a talk on "Things that Go Bump in the Night...
Monica Whitty's keynote at the FIRST Conference (recording available on YouTube) used...
An interesting talk from Rockwell at this year's FIRST conference looked at how to organise...
